Homebrew - The Good, Bad and Ugly of OS X Packaging

Some of the things that Homebrew does well, badly and the special challenges that OSX packagers need to deal with. Presented at FOSDEM in 2015.

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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of OS X Packaging Mike McQuaid Homebrew
2. Mike McQuaid
   https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid !
3. The Good
4. Contribution
5. 4462 contributors to Homebrew/homebrew
6. mistydemeo mikemcquaid asparagui jacknagel adamv tdsmith
10. Stable Base System Dependencies
11. depends_run port:rsync \ port:p5.12-error depends_lib port:p5.12 \ port:curl \ port:zlib \ port:openssl \ port:expat \ port:libiconv
13. Patching
15. The Bad
16. Upstream Doesn’t Support/Like OS X Patches
17. Upstream Is Inactive
18. Niche Projects
19. Money
20. The Ugly
21. Abuse
22. Questions?